Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

The hardest part about our transient, shallow world wide web is the terrifying swiftness in which data disappears. To this end, Archive Team members have often bravely strapped on miner's helmets and flashlights, dove into the flaming wreckage of a dying site, and grabbed a copy for all of time. Some of these rescues, consisting of what we could grab, are being saved here.

Please Note: Some of these items were not burning as brightly or recently as others - they might be merely considered "off-site backups" of sites or collections, but in most cases the original data is now gone.

Everton boss David Moyes admits Steven Pienaar could leave in January to boost transfer funds

Desperate times call for
drastic measures and
David Moyes has admitted
he may have to sell Steven
Pienaar to revive his
ailing strike force.

A 0-0
Goodison Park draw with
Wigan Athletic on Saturday
stretched Everton’s
worrying run without a win
to seven and, once again,
they squandered a raft of
chances.

That Jermaine
Beckford is the leading
striker with two goals
says everything.
Moyes is limited
with what he can
do in the transfer
window.

Going? Steven Pienaar (left) could leave Everton in January

But
Tottenham
want South Africa midfielder
Pienaar and he only has six
months left on his contract.
‘It may well come to it in the
January transfer window
that we have to consider
selling Pienaar to raise
money,’ said the Everton
boss.

‘We need a striker but,
realistically the sort of
money we will raise through
that route, what type of
player is it going to buy us?’

Yakubu, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
and John Heitinga may be
preferable sales for Moyes
but he admits: ‘It is
probably a reality we will
have to look at
bringing in a loan
player.’